New Publications

A rare event these days; I've had a new paper published – on Taylor & Francis Online in a special issue of the journal Global Discourse, edited by John Foster.  It's in response to a paper by Steve Gough in...

The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has produced a report on the SDGs.  This is the summary: By adopting Agenda 2030 the Government has committed itself to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals - or the Global Goals - in...

Goodbye, then, Malia; absolutely no one will miss you. In a bold move, the NUS has bundled its terrible President off the stage after only a year in office.  Malia B was challenged by Shakira Martin whom I know as she was a member...

I got this the other day about a special issue of EER: New Materialisms and Environmental Education This is part of what it said: In New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency & Politics, Coole and Frost (2010) argue that contemporary environmental, economic, geopolitical, and technological...

Last year, the Commission on Geographical Education (CGE) published an International  Charter on Geographical Education.  This imposing tome fails the real-world test at the first hurdle.  Despite this being a 2016 publication, there is only one reference to the SDGs.  This is...

The UK's National Commission for UNESCO has published a series of case studies on ESD:  Good practice in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the UK: Case Studies. The Introduction says: "Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is described by UNESCO as...

I wrote the other day about UNESCOs latest and rather surreal publication on learning outcomes. The whole thing is couched in the language of competencies, as is rather too-Germanic for my taste (that is not a political judgement).  This seems...

I've been trying to take seriously UNESCO's latest output on the Sustainable Development Goals, but it's hard going. UNESCO says that its new publication, "Education for Sustainable Development Goals: Learning Objectives, targets policy-makers, curriculum developers and educators, and that it contains learning...

I've been reading a piece by Paul Kingsnorth in The Guardian.  It's a reflection on environmentalism in an age of globalisation, and begins thus: "Last June, I voted to leave the European Union. I wasn’t an anti-EU fanatic but I...

Hans Rosling died earlier this year.  He was the statistician who brought world population (and other) data to life, especially through his TED talks and YouTube videos. He was the co-founder of Gapminder.org, which continues his work.  In his final BBC...